The screenplays from Oscar contenders Sinners, One Battle After Another, Hamnet and Marty Supreme are among the movie nominees revealed Tuesday for the 2026 Writers Guild Awards. On the TV side, Apple TV’s Pluribus scored a leading four nominations from the guild, for Drama Series, New Series…

With The Late Show set to end in May, Stephen Colbert is receiving this year's Walter Bernstein Award from the Writers Guild of America East. The honor will be bestowed on March 8 at the WGA Awards' East Coast ceremony in New York, which takes place concurrently with the WGA's West Coast…

The Writers Guild of America West said Wednesday that it will present its 2026 TV career honor to Blossom, My Wife & Kids and The Ranch creator and M*A*S*H writer-producer Don Reo. The two-time Emmy nominee with dozens of credits will receive the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television Writing…

EXCLUSIVE: A large number of much-awarded films in contention for Oscar nominations this year won’t see their writers also going to the WGA Awards. As usual the guild, which has strict eligibility rules, has a number of widely acclaimed screenplays and…

EXCLUSIVE: Diana Son will receive the WGA East’s Richard B. Jablow Award for Devoted Service at the 78th Annual Writers Guild Awards ceremony in March. Son, a member of the WGA East since 1999, is a showrunner, writer, producer and playwright. She has been co-emcee of the WGAE's Showrunner…

The WGA has typed up the timeline for its 78th annual Writers Guild Awards. The guild said in June that its usual dual ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York will be held on Sunday, March 8 — a week before the Oscars — at the JW Marriott and Edison Ballroom, respectively. Today it revealed…

WGA West President Meredith Stiehm sought to reassure members that the guild is doing its best to work in their favor during her speech at Saturday night's guild awards. Not only did she once speak out against the use of writers' work to train AI systems, she also took a jab at the Trump…

“The best thing about Hollywood, other than, obviously, award shows, is that all of us got in the door because someone believed in us," said Bill Lawrence, accepting the WGA East Herb Sergeant Award in New York tonight, urging the assembled to "go out and find a young person to believe…

Sean Baker’s Anora, written by Baker, and Nickel Boys, written by RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, took the top film prizes at the 77th annual Writers Guild Awards tonight, for Original Screenplay and Adapted Screenplay, respectively. The awards were handed out in concurrent ceremonies in Los Angeles…

EXCLUSIVE: Joel Kim Booster just wants to make people laugh — and if anyone could use a moment of levity right now, its film and TV writers. The comedian is set to host the 77th WGA Awards’ West Coast ceremony Saturday (joined by Roy Wood Jr. on the East Coast), because, in his own words, “I am…

RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes will receive the Writers Guild of America West's 2025 Paul Selvin Award for their work as the screenwriters of Nickel Boys, the Amazon MGM Studios drama they adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning book. The honor will be bestowed during the guild’s WGA…

Screenwriter and director David Lynch, who died this month, has been named the recipient of the Writers Guild of America West's 2025 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement. The guild says he was aware of the honor and accepted several weeks…